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It's been an interesting few days...
So. I'm sure you've all read about online romance scams where somebody finds out a person they've been corresponding with for quite awhile turns out not to be who they say they are. You've also probably read accounts of scams wherein the scammer doesn't even exist. Here's a really interesting one I read about sometime last year. It's quite ( Read more... ) -
Two great things I found today
The first of two great things I've found today has been around for awhile but I just got sent the link by my dad and I'm thrilled.
MIT's website offers 1800 free courses and lectures for download. It's a bunch of old courses they don't use anymore and so they've put them up for anybody to use. There's everything from science and technology to art ( Read more... ) -
Give food to starving kids in Africa, with vocabulary words!
I want everybody to go to this site- http://www.freerice.com/index.php and spend a little while taking the vocabulary test. For every definition you get right, FreeRice will donate ten grains of rice to starving kids in Africa. It gets kind of hard around level 40, but they won't take ( Read more... ) -
This guy's blind and he paints better than me
Seriously. I'm amazed. Assuming this story's 100% true, it's something special. I just don't get how somebody who never did any art while he could see could have such a great understanding of visual art after he went blind. -
Eastern Promises
I went to see Eastern Promises over the weekend and it's amazing. Gritty and violent and very unpleasant especially if you are a fan of LotR-era Viggo Mortensen. I am, but I was not so married to that image that I couldn't let go and enjoy nasty and vicious Viggo. He also joins my growing list of favorite actors whose penises I have seen. The scene ( Read more... ) -
Read more stories about donkeys
I just looked at one of those Yahoo news stories ( Read more... ) -
Tribute to Beksinski
Here's a short slideshow I just did featuring a selection of paintings by my favorite artist Zdzislaw Beksinski. I have always admired him greatly for his amazing skill and bizarre imagination, and identified with him because he was always most concerned with the image and the feelings it evoked, not about any deep meaning. His paintings seem to ( Read more... ) -
Woah. Autopsy.
There is a video of a human autopsy on Google Video. I expected it to be more disturbing than it was, but it was actually not that bad. Very educational. It's the first real complete autopsy I've seen. I understand there was one shown on UK television some years ago but I didn't get to see that. The only one they showed on US television was the ( Read more... ) -
Asturias
I got to see John Williams in concert a few months ago. Not the John Williams who writes movie soundtracks, the classical guitarist. I've been listening to him my whole life since my dad's a guitar player and loves the romantic style stuff the best. I'm sort of trying my hand at learning, using the same book my dad learned on in high school :D He' ( Read more... )
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